Dramatic new looks! Shaggier Chavira; clean-cut Kutcher

Two of the most striking sights at this TV press tour have been the dramatic new looks sported by “Desperate Housewives” star Ricardo Chavira of San Antonio and “Two and a Half Men’s” Ashton Kutcher.

Kutcher will no longer be the long-haired, bearded guy he’s been on “Two and a Half Men” since he joined the show in the fall.

“It’s related to an episode on Monday,” a GQ-looking Kutcher (check out photo) said of his new clean-cut look. “These guys (pointing to producers) wrote a screenplay (demanding) that I cut my hair and shave my beard. “

He said it was “a great episode” – at 8 p.m. Monday on CBS. — and urged us to watch.

Chavira looked trimmer, younger and hipper than he does on the show in a wild, curly ‘do and hot leather jacket.

The S.A. resident attributed his new look (seen above), not to a new “Housewives” storyline, but instead to his beloved 3-year-old daughter.

“If you’ve been watching this season, they’ve been making me shellac it all back and keep it down,” he said of his more conservative look on the ABC show. “I started growing it out this summer because my daughter is three and she’s got this wild, crazy, cave girl hair. And I thought, you know, I want to do that, and so she is my inspiration for my hair.”

Chavira and his wife, Marcea Dietzel, who make their home in the Alamo City, are parents of two: Belen Elysabeth, 3, and Tomas Antonio, 9.

As for the rest of his look, the drop in weight, for instance, Chavira said he’s drinking less, eating better and has been working steadily with a trainer. The 40-year-old looked so much younger than his two male “Housewives” co-stars – James Denton and Doug Savant (seen in photo with Chavira) – in fact, that, when I caught up with them after the session, they referred to him as their “son.”